Apr 7, 2019

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh announced Monday afternoon that she will take an indefinite leave of absence, starting at midnight, as she faces a scandal over purchases of her self-published children’s books.

Apr 6, 2019

Source: Raw Story It should come as no surprise, national security expert Marcy Wheeler wrote in a new op-ed, that special counsel Robert Mueller’s team thinks the attorney general downplayed accusations against the president — because public records prove it. Wheeler wrote in a Friday Washington Post column that by the time Mueller submitted his report to Barr, there was already public evidence that “undermined” the AG’s summary.

Apr 6, 2019

And Trump thought he was done with Cohen. Attorneys for Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former fixer, submitted documents to lawmakers Thursday night accusing Trump and his team of lawyers of instructing Cohen to lie to Congress about when negotiations ended to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. In a 12-page memo sent to top House Democrats, Cohen’s attorneys said Trump “encouraged Cohen to lie and say all Moscow Tower project contacts ended as of January 31, 2016 using ‘code’ language — tel…